Nearly 1/2 of the world’s population — more than 3 billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day. More than 1.3 billion live in extreme poverty — less than $1.25 a day.
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1 billion children worldwide are living in poverty. According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty.
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As of 2011, 19 million children worldwide are not vaccinated.
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d. He had brothers, Thorvald and Thorstein, and a half-sister, Freydis. In the year 999 BCE, Ericsson sailed to Norway to visit King Olaf Trygvson. On his way the ship was blown off course and he landed on one of the Hebrides islands. Continuing poor weather made it impossible for him to leave so he spent the summer on the island.
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. She gave birth to his son and as his departure date drew near, she asked that he take her with him. He refused, citing her family connections. Thorgunna had a reputation for being able to predict the future, and vowed that even though Leif was leaving them, one day she and their son would journey to find him and the experience would not be a good one.
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, while other sources claim that when the boy was old enough to travel, he found Leif.
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they check all the animals before every body come to see them. They do specil medicatins thet they need. They clean their yards to make shure evry thing goes well.They do the speciol food for the cats and they preper toys. they encaregue the animals to look for their food son they can learn their natoral instincts.they do good things for the animals such as the cubs. one of the specil theings they do is that they change their things so they feel in a complitley new habitat when they are in the same one. They train the animals not for the public for medical things. most of the zoo keepers treat them well.
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It takes a lot of energy to flap such large wings, just like it's a lot of work running with a large kite until it takes off!